I call a phone and it almost goes straght to voicemail but it does this half not even half like a 4th of a ring and then voicemail for like a week straight anytime of the day? Could the service off even though voicemail comes on, battery dead, off network or something? It's a metro pcs service
1 week ago
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duh how do you press ignore on a cell phone…?
I mean really… which button is that?
Seriously if the call didn't even ring a full ring before heading straight to voice mail. more than likely the user turned the phone off, and it just took the cell system a second to realize the phone wasn't logged on.
Every time you turn your phone on, it logs into the cell system and sends a data burst out- the electronic equivalent of " Hello out there, this is John's phone, I am a Sprint client from Columbus, Ohio! this is my system ID, my serial number, and my telephone number!"
To which the nearest cell phone towers hear this, and talk to each other –
"Downtown, I have john's phone at a signal 5,"
"Downtown, this is east side, I have john's phone at signal 3"
"Downtown, this is west side, I have John's phone at a signal 9"
"West side, this is Downtown, go ahead and take John's phone.."
This all takes place in a second or so, about as long as it takes for your cell to wake up and give you that happy little login message you see when you first turn it on.
Then every so often as long as the phone is on, it 'pings' the network, which then updates the the new location of john's phone… This info is how your navigation and GPS work, and it's also what makes voicemail work… if someone calls you, then system finds the phone and local tower sends a ring tone to your phone, with caller ID info, and thats how your ringtones know who is calling.
If the phone is off, then the system doesn't find you, and it rolls right to voicemail, and that message is stored on a computer hard drive somewhere until the phone is turned back on.
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